Short biography:

Éric Filiol is a senior consultant in information and systems security, cyber security and intelligence at OPS4SEC, Tallinn, Estonia. He is also professor at ENSIBS, Vannes, France and at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia in the field of information and systems security. In the last two years he has been in charge of risk and threat assessment of a sensitive private cloud in the Defense sector. He directed the research and the cyber security laboratory of a French engineer school for 12 years. He spent 22 years in the French Army (Infantry/French Marine Corps). He holds an engineering degree in Cryptology, a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique and a Habilitation to Conduct Research (HDR) in Information from the University of Rennes. He holds several NATO certifications in the field of intelligence. He is editor-in-chief of the research journal in Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques published by Springer. He regularly gives international conferences in the field of security (Black Hat, CCC, CanSecWest, PacSec, Hack.lu, Brucon, H2HC, Hacktivity…).